Sunday, January 13, 2013

What fun to be in a national magazine. I am honored to
be in the February 2013 Bead Trends Magazine. Last year I submitted a
interchangeable bracelet design using 3 of my beads and 3 cords or
chains to have up to 18 different variety's of a bracelet. These are
super easy to make just basically adding a few jump rings to the end of
one of my curved bracelet beads. You can use either leather or chain with a lobster claw on each
end, then just wrap the cord or chain around your wrist. The fun part is
once you have made the leather cord or chain with lobster claw ends you
can mix and match them with my pottery beads and have endless
combinations, especially if you layer the cord and chain.

Bead Trends February 2013

Here is a Rodeo cuff, a Elli Bead and a Carmine Bead

The tutorial is in the magazine

This is one of the photos I submitted to the magazine.

Here is a sample of the rhinestone chain and leather being layered with the rodeo bead. I wear this one all the time and always get lots of smiles and compliments on the bracelet.

This is one of my Carmine beads with mixed metal accents, I put a hole in the bead before firing and then I add the accent beads with tiny micro stainless steel screws and secure them with a tiny micro nut.

This is my steampunk cuff that was also in the February 2031 Bead Trends Magazine

Bead Trends also accepted this steampunk design I made for the February 2013 issue. This fun steampunk cuff was made out of a pair of my kids recycled blue jeans, you can either buckle the bracelet on or zip it on, as I used the existing buttons and added the zipper to it as an accent. The bead is one of my lavish steampunk beads and I added 2 layers of gears. The chain is a piece of recycled ball chain. I just got the cuff back from Bead Trends and I am looking forward to wearing it soon with jeans. The following images are ones that I took and submitted to
the magazine, I thought you might find it interesting to see what I
took vs how the magazine photographed the piece.

This image shows the layers of gears well and you can see how I linked the ball chain into the gears.

I have had my beads published before but this was the first time I had sent in the designs. Lucky me as I flipped thru the magazine I came across this great piece by Molly Alexander she made this great necklace and the little blue bird house bead is one that I made. Thanks Molly for giving me credit. Molly has been published many times, she is a talented artist. Molly has a great blog if you want to visit herthere.

Design by Molly Alexander, the bird house bead is one of mine.

Another great design was featured in the February 2013 Bead and Button by Beth Moser, I love what Beth does with the tiny beads and beautiful designs. I just do not do well with such tiny beads, but I admire people that do. The rings are available in my shop if you want to pick up February's Bead & Button magazine and gives these lovely rings a try.

These beautiful rings are the work of Beth Moser as see in Bead and Button Feb. 2013